Ramage, Magnus and Shipp, Karen (2009). Systems Thinkers. London: Open University/Springer-Verlag.
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Abstract
Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker's key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker's own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests.
Systems thinking is necessarily interdisciplinary, so that the thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas - biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies among others. Some are core innovators in systems ideas; some have been primarily practitioners who also advanced and popularised systems ideas; others are well-known figures who drew heavily upon systems thinking although it was not their primary discipline. A significant aim of the book is to broaden and deepen the reader's interest in systems writers, providing an appetising "taster" for each of the 30 thinkers, so that the reader is encouraged to go on to study the published works of the thinkers themselves.
| Item Type: | Authored Book |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009 The Open University |
| ISBN: | 1-84882-524-2, 978-1-84882-524-6 |
| Extra Information: | Contents:
Introduction (FULL TEXT ATTACHED) Early Cybernetics Chapter 1: Gregory Bateson Chapter 2: Norbert Wiener Chapter 3: Warren McCulloch Chapter 4: Margaret Mead Chapter 5: Ross Ashby General Systems Theory Chapter 6: Ludwig von Bertalanffy Chapter 7: Kenneth Boulding Chapter 8: Geoffrey Vickers Chapter 9: Howard Odum System Dynamics Chapter 10: Jay Forrester Chapter 11: Donella Meadows Chapter 12: Peter Senge Soft and Critical Systems Chapter 13: C. West Churchman Chapter 14: Russell Ackoff Chapter 15: Peter Checkland Chapter 16: Werner Ulrich Chapter 17: Michael Jackson Later Cybernetics Chapter 18: Heinz von Foerster Chapter 19: Stafford Beer Chapter 20: Humberto Maturana Chapter 21: Niklas Luhmann Chapter 22: Paul Watzlawick Complexity Theory Chapter 23: Ilya Prigogine Chapter 24: Stuart Kauffman Chapter 25: James Lovelock Learning Systems Chapter 26: Kurt Lewin Chapter 27: Eric Trist Chapter 28: Chris Argyris Chapter 29: Donald Schön (FULL TEXT ATTACHED) Chapter 30: Mary Catherine Bateson |
| Keywords: | biographical history; systems ideas; systems thinkers |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Communication and Systems |
| Item ID: | 16948 |
| Depositing User: | Magnus Ramage |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2010 15:44 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2013 03:24 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/16948 |
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